Earning Props
Flying a plane is easy – with an instructor at your side, that is.
Flying can’t be this easy. I expected to have to show my driver’s license, sign a waiver or take an eye examination before I even started to study for weeks in preparation to fly a ...
Soar Subject
Hang gliding is as serene and soothing as it looks from the ground.
Maybe a bobcat prowling the mountain forest, or a stingray hovering on the sandy ocean floor. But ultimately, if I could be any animal, I’d have to go with a bird – pelican, owl, hawk ...
Higher Learning
How skydiving can lead to a visceral insight.
WARNING: Tempting terminal gravity may be hazardous to your health. Swooping around in the wind tied to an artificial wing is not the safest summertime activity. Taking a Cessna from altitude to the tarmac is ...
Issues / 2008 / May 22
Summit Still On: New Date for Music Summit
October is the new date for the Monterey Music Summit, which originally was scheduled for May 30-June 1 at Laguna Seca Raceway, according to a news release Friday from public relations firm Street Wise PR. ...
Music Summit Called Off
The Monterey Music Summit will not take place May 30-June 1, the Weekly has learned. Event organizer Joe Fletcher plans to issue official word Friday, May 23. Return to this website for information about refunds ...
Judge appoints receiver for Cedar Funding
Monterey County Superior Court Judge Marla Anderson on Thursday appointed a receiver to take over troubled mortgage fund and investment firm Cedar Funding. Anderson said a neutral receiver, who is monitored by the court, would ...
April
SUN KIL MOON
Whether recording under the moniker Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon or his given name, Mark Kozelek always captures the sonic essence of driving on a wide-open highway just as the light of dawn seeps ...
Dining with Dems
Local Democrats ride a wave of support at fundraising event.
Energy was high at the Monterey County Democrats’ First Annual Jefferson Jackson dinner Saturday, May 17, at the Hyatt Regency Monterey. More than 200 people attended the fundraiser, with tickets starting at $99 per head. ...
Hut One
Catering pro’s new Filipino restaurant in Oldtown offers killer comfort food to satisfy a linebacker’s appetite.
For three years, Rod Daquioag had been trying to open Lumpia Hut in Oldtown Salinas. But fate said no. There were tiffs with builders, inspectors, contractors, and discoveries inherent to remodel jobs that meant blown ...
Son of Rambow
Action Refigured: A couple British kids attempt to make their own sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s First Blood in Son of Rambow.
Acongregant of a strict (and unspecified) religious sect in the early ’80s, young Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is a runty innocent mourning the sudden death of his father. His only solace lies in the outpourings ...
Art Listing for May 22, 2008
Art Listing for May 22, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK alvarado gallery Journeys Through the Lens: photography, reception 5:30-7pm, 5/23. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 646-5648. cannery row antiques mall Vintage board games. 471 Wave St., Monterey. 655-0264. Emily Brown ...
Sinti Swing
Gypsy jazz guitarist Lulo Reinhardt follows his muse.
When it comes to Gypsy jazz, these are the best of times. The blazing musical style created by Sinti guitarist Django Reinhardt and French violinist Stephane Grappelli has maintained a devoted following since the Quintette ...
Vigilante Verses
The Dark Lord’s intense type of poetry finds an audience.
The poem that earned him the title “The Dark Lord” is called “Declaration of a Heretic.” “The beast will spew them forth from his mouth,” The Dark Lord bellowed over the microphone. “He will taste ...
Updates
CANINE CAMPUS REVISITED… Last summer we broke the story about retired developer Joel Gambord’s quest to build a doggy college near Marina’s airport. The city of Marina didn’t roll over for the canine proposal at ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$1,900,000 Recent Sale 408 Mirador Court, Monterey (Pasadara Country Club) Built: 2006 Size: 4,310 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 4-1/2 bathrooms, 2 floors, 2-car garage Amenities: Each bedroom has a full bathroom, master suite on ...
Crossover Republicans could help him win.
Rush Limbaugh and some myopic Democrats would have us believe that most, if not all, Republicans who have been voting in Democratic primaries are “dittoheads” implementing the radio host’s “Operation Chaos.” Limbaugh has promoted his ...
Public Citizen
Ongoing MARINA COMMISSION SEATS | MARINA—The city of Marina seeks residents (who are also registered voters) to fill one seat on the Planning Commission and one seat on the Economic Development Commission. Filing deadline is ...
For voters 18-29, the Web is where it’s at for political info.
My generation was the one that was supposed to change politics. We would end the war, sweep the old guard from power and bring peace to the world. Instead, we got Richard Nixon, disco and ...
Get More Play
The county’s outdoor adventures merit extra attention. Here it is.
They were calling the outdoors “great” long before Theodore Roosevelt was a bear cub. And, everybody with me now – it doesn’t get much greater than Monterey County. But let’s stop gloating about it and ...
Squid Fry for May 22, 2008
Squid Fry for May 22, 2008
BENCH AND BALLOT… Squid thought Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger learned this lesson years ago, but maybe it’s time for a refresher course in Keep Your Tentacles To Yourself. Squid’s talking about the circus that is Schwarzenegger’s ...
For All Mankind
THE PHENOMENAUTS
The Phenomenauts come roaring out of the gate at warp speed on their third album with 13 inspired blasts of sugar-coated adrenaline guaranteed to slap a sap py smile on your face. “Man Alone” is ...
Home Page
Cinematic windows offer rewarding sights in this Pebble Beach condo.
hepherd’s Knoll in Pebble Beach is a high-gated condominium property presented in a series of unostentatious buildings, each with four floors, all with views of the deepest part of the forest, and in many, the ...
Full Sail Ahead
The Wooden Shjips dock at Henry Miller.
The San Francisco psychedelic rock band Wooden Shjips never intended to become widely known. When bandleader Ripley Johnson put together the outfit in 2003, he initially sought to recruit only non-musicians in the hope that ...
Letters to the Editor for May 22, 2008
TAKE A HISTORY LESSON Apparently the Monterey County Weekly understands Proposition 98 but just has a different view of our laws [“Endorsements,” May 15-21]. Proposition 98, you wrote, would “eliminate deference to government in property-rights ...
Rhythm & Romance
KENNY G
It’s not news to anyone that Kenny G’s last few recordings have been, to be kind, less than stellar; this all changes with the release of Rhythm & Romance. In this outing the biggest-selling instrumental ...
Q:What’s on your must-do list for the summer?
Asked at Del Monte Beach in Monterey
Follow-up: What do you want to do before you croak? LAUREN ORMAN | Restaurant Worker | Big Sur A: This summer I would like to grow a vegetable garden and serve a fabulous meal to ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for May 22, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
I’m a California white boy with many Mexican friends. In addition to that, I’ve been running a fantasy baseball league for nine years. For the first time, we have a large percentage of Mexicans in ...
100 Proof
Pinnacles asserts its rich history with a host of centennial celebrations.
The met people at the entrance to Pinnacles National Monument with a rifle, a stiff upper lip and a demand for 50 cents. Olive Rivers wasn’t the kind of woman you’d want living next door ...
The Right Snuff
Chuck Palahniuk’s latest novel uses dark humor to examine filthy porn and death.
Chuck Palahniuk has a penchant for writing stories that induce nausea and laughter simultaneously. “Guts,” his short story that appeared in Playboy in 2004, replays three true tales of masturbation gone horribly wrong. His 2002 ...
Food Chain
Sustain the Game
TAKE NOTES… With the past week’s Cooking for Solutions still cacophonizing inside the expansive chamber of my mind, I find myself (yeah right, Martha, this guy’s so lost he’ll never find himself) thinking about the ...
Fill in the Blanks
UC Davis analyst finds gaps in LBAM environmental assessment.
It’s not what we know that has scared so many Californians in the areas slated to be sprayed with microencapsulated moth pheromones. It’s what we don’t know. At the May 5 Light Brown Apple Moth ...
Raw Knowledge
Six Women give local theater a sassy kick in the ass.
Paper Wing Theatre reaffirms something specific with its latest production, the elaborately labeled Six Women with Brain Death, or Expiring Minds Want to Know – namely, that they have something precious and fresh to add ...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Past Imperfect: Nostalgia trumps imagination and joy in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Yes, Harrison Ford is 65 years old. There’s a gauntness to his cheeks these days, and a steely grey to both the hair on his head and the stubble on his chin. But when he ...
Life After Shrimp
Some of the most crucial lessons at the Aquarium’s Sustainability Institute involved salmon, shrimp and tuna.
Rick Moonen, as the star chef at the Mandalay Bay’s rm Seafood, knows what happens in Las Vegas: a lot of shrimp eating. “They serve 60,000 pounds of shrimp in Vegas on a daily basis,” ...
Gaining Altitude
Increasingly ambitious Emmylou Harris visits the Golden State Theatre.
By the time Emmylou Harris released her 1995 album Wrecking Ball, the acclaimed musician already had assembled a dizzying list of musical accomplishments. Harris’ backing vocals sweeten the songs and add to the lyrics’ emotional ...
Second Cut is Deeper
Governor’s revised budget hits hard at education and social services.
Per usual, poor people will most acutely feel the state budget pinch. Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released his $144.3 billion state spending plan that would eliminate a huge budget deficit by borrowing against the ...
Summit Come Down
The second-ever Monterey Music Summit flirts with cancellation.
B.B. King, eyes closed, smile wide, looks peaceful. Surprisingly, so does longtime promoter and King collaborator Joe Fletcher as he sits in his Seaside office beneath the signed portrait of B.B. – despite the fact ...
